!Women Art Revolution

!Women Art Revolution

Voices of a Movement

The artists’ and critics’ interviews presented here chronicle the founding years of the feminist art movement in the 1970s. Created by artist and filmmaker Lynn
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Hershman Leeson as she developed her groundbreaking documentary, !Women Art Revolution, this archive provides the first-person histories of the pioneering individuals who challenged the ways in which women were considered by the reigning art establishment.

The San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection

The San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection

The Charles N. Huggins Project

The Great Jazz Revival of the 1940s ignited popular interest in early New Orleans Jazz in a widespread movement, as much a social phenomenon driven by a dawning
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awareness of black culture in America as a music revolution. Fans rejected the commercial swing band sound of the day for high-energy hot jazz of the 20s, a music which had disappeared from the cultural landscape. A group of young San Francisco musicians, led by Lu Watters and Turk Murphy, are at the heart of the story documented in the Collection.

The Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome

The Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome

Photographs from the Ernest Nash Fototeca Unione Collection

This digital archive features over 1,295 photographs of Roman buildings, monuments, and sites taken by Ernest Nash throughout the mid-20th century. These pictures were
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digitized in partnership with the American Academy in Rome, which houses the Fototeca Unione, founded by Ernest Nash in 1957.

South Africa, Greece, Rome: a digital museum

South Africa, Greece, Rome: a digital museum

This project has grown out of a book by the same name: South Africa, Greece, Rome: classical confrontations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). The aim of
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both is to bring together instances of South Africa's engagements with ancient Greece and Rome.

Images of Rome

Images of Rome

The Rodolfo Lanciani Digital Archive

The "Fondo Rodolfo Lanciani" is currently housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte at Rome’s Palazzo Venezia. Assembled over the course of
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Lanciani’s lifetime, the collection is akin to a “paper museum” whose size and scope compare to that of the famous seventeenth century antiquarian Cassiano dal Pozzo.

Travel Through Time: Japan

Travel Through Time: Japan

Travel-related ephemera from the 17th through the early 20th century.

The study of travel is often associated with maps. And yet, many of the most precious Japanese maps were never used by travelers. This collection of prints represents
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materials collected by travelers or produced for travelers. It spans a period of time in which there was dramatic change in modes of travel, printing, and viewing geographic space.

Mario Paci: An Italian Maestro in China

Mario Paci: An Italian Maestro in China

Conductor, composer, and pianist, Mario Paci (1878-1946) is best known today for transforming the Shanghai Town Band into one of the finest orchestras in East Asia, the
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Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, now called the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
作为指挥家，作曲家，钢琴家，梅百器(1878–1946) 今天最为人所知的业迹， 就是将一个上海城镇乐队变为东亚地区最优秀的管弦乐团之一的上海 工部局乐团，也就是后来的上海交响乐团

Stanford Prison Experiment

Stanford Prison Experiment

Early Printed Leaves

Early Printed Leaves

From the First Years of the Printing Press

This exhibition shows a selection of leaves from early printed books. Among the treasures of this collection are woodcuts and texts from incunabula and other works
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which were copied during the birth of printing.

Rare Music Materials at Stanford

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison

Project Gallery

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison’s artistic collaboration began late 1960s. Pioneers of the eco-art movement; their work often involves co-collaborators such as
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biologists, ecologists, urban planners, and local citizens to support biodiversity and community development around the world.
This exhibition showcases 35 projects documented by the Harrisons and their assistants.

Hanna House Collection

Hanna House Collection

Correspondence, blueprints, drawings, photographs, and other records relating to the planning, design and construction of the campus home of Professor and Mrs. Paul R.
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Hanna. The collection focuses on the Hanna's work with architect Frank Lloyd Wright extending from the initial planning of the house through later renovations.

Incomparable: The Stanford Band

Stanford Historical Photograph Collection

Stanford Historical Photograph Collection

The Stanford Photograph Collection contains over 16,000 images of Stanford scenes including photographs of and relating to the Stanford family, views of the campus and
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individual buildings, photographs of students and student life activities, and photographs of faculty and administrative staff. The majority of photographs are black and white gelatin prints but nineteenth-century albumen prints mounted on boards are also represented. The collection spans the late 1890s through the 1990s.

Arthur Tress Photograph Collection

Arthur Tress Photograph Collection

A Stanford Libraries Special Collections Exhibition

One of the most renowned and innovative photographers of his generation, Tress’s work explores a world that is rich with implication and fantasy. Continually seeking
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what he refers to as “the hidden life of the imagination,” Tress embraces accident and chance, creating beautifully composed works that can be both playful and threatening. In 2016 Stanford Libraries received the first in a continuing series of installments that will form the Arthur Tress photography archive.

Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai

Film Archive

Israeli filmmaker, Amos Gitai, is known for his work on themes related to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Holocaust. This exhibit showcases the Amos Gitai film
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archive which contains video, still images, and scripts from many of his films.

The Baltic Way

The Baltic Way

History and Culture in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania 1918–2018

This online exhibit is based on a physical exhibit that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Baltic countries and was displayed in Cecil H. Green Library in 2018.
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Stanford Libraries and Hoover Institution Library &amp; Archives staff worked together to create the exhibition using materials from their respective collections related to the history and culture of the Baltic region.

"The First Hebrew City"

"The First Hebrew City"

Early Tel Aviv through the Eyes of the Eliasaf Robinson Collection

The Jewish settlement that became the city of Tel Aviv was established in 1909. Almost everything in this collection dates from before 1948, the year that the State of
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Israel proclaimed its independence. The collection documents a vast range of private and public activity in Tel Aviv during its first four decades. Above all, the materials in the collection demonstrate one of the twentieth century’s boldest and most effective acts of social engineering: the revival and enforced use of the Hebrew language.

Stanford Oral History Collections

Stanford Oral History Collections

Medieval Collections at Stanford

Medieval Collections at Stanford

Resources for Research and Teaching

This Spotlight Exhibition features objects and manuscripts in Stanford Collections that illuminate the history and culture of the medieval world, especially in Europe
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and the Mediterranean from 300-1600 CE.

The Burke Collection of Early Italian Miniatures

The Burke Collection of Early Italian Miniatures

R. Buckminster Fuller Collection

R. Buckminster Fuller Collection

Architect, Systems Theorist, Designer, and Inventor

The R. Buckminster Fuller Collection contains over 1,400 linear feet of personal and professional papers, manuscripts, drawings, blueprints, audio and video recordings,
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and models. Over 700 media elements have been reformatted and more than 5,000 slides as well as the clippings index and Bucky's schedule of lectures, projects, and days. All of these are available for research use in the department's reading room.

Hume Center for Writing & Speaking

Hume Center for Writing & Speaking

The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection

The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection

Archive of the world's longest running jazz festival

This site provides historical information about the Monterey Jazz Festival, one of the premiere jazz institutions in the world, and information about the recordings
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from the festival that feature the most significant jazz musicians of our time.